I’m around, but not working much, sort of taking time off to spend with some friends and other responsibilities. However, I know how annoying and puzzling it is when a blog you read daily just seems to vanish, so I’ll post a quick something each day. Far be it from me to annoy my tens […]
Building Sequoias on Canvas
Do you have any understanding of the difficulty of coming up with interesting titles to the same subjects, over and over and over? Just asking, not really expecting any answers. These paintings, 6×18”, of Sequoia Gigantea, AKA Redwoods, AKA Big Trees, sell very steadily at $195 each. I get a little tired of painting the […]
A Light* Workday in Three Rivers
*“Light” meaning the sun was shining and also meaning I didn’t do much work. Let’s get the work part over with, and then we can enjoy some photos that might shock anyone who lives where there is real winter. Three new sequoia gigantea 6×18” paintings are now on the easel. Next, I battled with Adobe […]
Oil Paintings on the Move
Sales were slow this December. Actually, sales of oil paintings were slow all fall, beginning with the show in Tulare called “Around Here”, where no paintings and six pencil drawings sold. However, during the fall season, a few paintings did move. These first two sold through Kaweah Arts, located in The Dome in Three Rivers. […]
Four Assorted Boxing Day Thoughts
2. After the Yellow Tunnel oil painting dries again, I will put the finishing touches on it. I can print and write more neatly, sometimes it is just unimportant, such as when I am slamming out the notes as fast as they pop into my mind. 3. This is the best article and idea I […]
Three Assorted Christmas Eve Thoughts
Today we continue the assorted thoughts, all unrelated to one another and unrelated to Christmas Eve. Then I painted the edges. That’s enough. I am guessing most of my blog readers have other things to do on Christmas Eve than read assorted and sundry thoughts from an artist’s rambling and active mind. Yes, calendars and […]
Day of Art Business Variety
This happened yesterday. First, I went to the post office to mail some packages of this painting and some calendars. From the PO I jaywalked across the highway to the bank to deposit moola from the day before in Tulare and a check paying for this painting, which sold at the Mural Gallery. When I […]
Long Distance Commission, Chapter 6
Remember this painting from before I began the mural? (I certainly hope so, since I showed it to you yesterday with a few trees completed on the left.) I finished landscaping the distance. (Maybe. There’s always room for improvement.) Then I texted Mr. J. (the customer) with a photo and this question: “Can you say […]
Meanwhile, Back in the Painting Workshop
Why “painting workshop”? Because I don’t paint in the studio. I draw in the 11×13’ studio; painting is too messy for that little space. Since I am taking a break from the library mural, I now have time to return to the oil painting commissions. We finally had a sunny day, which made it much […]
Long Distance Commission, Chapter 4
In between various and multiple tasks of a different nature, I was able to sneak in another layer on most of this commissioned oil painting. I’m experiencing wild confidence swings in my ability to do this painting. Right now, it’s swinging high. Calendars available here, $25, includes shipping.